Chapter 501: What? My Great Britain is gone? (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
London, March 18.
It's all messed up!
The whole of London was in chaos from the afternoon of March 17th!
In the morning, just St. James's Palace, St. James's Square and a few surrounding neighborhoods were in chaos. But as the crackdown rang out and the London workers who had escaped death from the "slaughterhouses" around St. James's Palace, news spread throughout the city that the Emperor had used German and Indian troops to kill innocents in London. The city, which was originally like a pile of revolutionary dry firewood, quickly ignited a raging fire of revolution!
At this time, although London was also the financial center of Europe, it was also an industrial center. A large number of factories were opened along the Thames, most of which were textile mills, chemical factories, arsenals, several shipyards that could produce small and medium-sized warships, and even an aircraft factory! It can be said that London can make any kind of arms you want.
In addition, since it was wartime, the chemical factories in London were working at full capacity to produce gunpowder and explosives, and all the arsenals were running 24 hours a day. A large number of guns, ammunition and artillery were piled up in the warehouses of chemical factories and arsenals before they could be transported. Among them, the largest Vickers factory is even more ammunition, guns, artillery, and warships. In its huge London factory, there are enough weapons and ammunition to arm tens of thousands of troops!
From the afternoon of 17 March, the workers of the industrial area of London began to arm themselves with weapons brought from the warehouses of the various arsenals under the leadership of the trade unions and the newly formed London Commune.
While the workers were armed, the flag of the Republic of England with a red cross and harp on a white background was also mass-produced by the workers of the London garment factory. By the evening of the 17th, almost the entire industrial area of London was flying the flag of the Republic!
The rest of London, however, was mostly controlled by Kaiser Wilhelm's British German Infantry Regiment, who still felt that it was not appropriate to use the Gurkha to occupy the middle and upper districts of London. Because these Gurkha people look too much like foreigners (in fact, they are foreigners) and let them occupy the boroughs of London look as if they were colonized by the British.
But these murderous Gurkha royal guards will not be idle. Emperor Wilhelm, who had already made up his mind to become a Cromwellian ruler, commanded his royal Gurkha guard to launch an attack on the industrial area of London from the evening of the 17th.
The battle began after dinner! The Gurkha Guards first mobilized a dozen 2.75-inch guns to bombard several textile mills on the edge of the industrial zone. The engineers of the Vickers factory pulled out more than 20 6-inch and 3.7-inch cannons from the factory's production line and warehouse, and bombarded them in the direction of St. James's Palace. Cannonballs filled with picric acid fell around St. James's Palace and soon set fire to a grove of woods and the houses of St. James's Palace. The flames were so bright that everyone could see them from afar.
After the shelling, of course, it was the charge of the Gurkha royal guards! The brave and warlike Gurkhas, armed with guns in one hand and machetes in the other, roared and slaughtered into the textile mills, and engaged in fierce battles with the armed workers of London who were guarding there.
At the other entrances to London's industrial districts, armed workers poured out a lot of miscellaneous things out of nowhere, built barricades in the streets, and the improvised workers' armed men fought street battles with Gurkha soldiers with rifles that had not been wiped clean with oil!
Although the Emperor's Gurkha soldiers were very strong, the working class in London was not weak - because the war had been going on for some days, and the situation was getting more and more unfavorable, so Kaiser Wilhelm issued an edict a few months ago to organize British school-age young and middle-aged people to participate in militia training. So the working class here in London, after a dozen hours of labor a day, had to spare an hour or two to learn the skills of using firearms with the London militia (there were militias in British cities at that time)!
In addition, many of the workers or petty bourgeoisie who now took part in the revolution of the London Commune had served in the British Army and the Royal Navy, and some had fought in the war against the Napoleonic Emperor, so they would shoot guns and throw grenades.
The Emperor's Gurkha soldiers were not very numerous, they were not familiar with the terrain of London, and these warriors from the mountains of Nepal were not very good at street fighting. They are often knocked down by machine guns and snipers lying in ambush in high or dark places. However, these Gurkha people are indeed not afraid of death, even if they suffer heavy losses, they can continue to attack! And once they get close, the Gurkhas' scimitars slash at each other, but they are very powerful.
Therefore, every barricade they captured was surrounded by mutilated human bodies and severed limbs or heads, which was really a river of blood, and it was terrible to see!
While attacking the armed workers, the Gurkhas did not forget the traditional skill of indiscriminately killing innocents! Basically, you can kill and burn wherever you hit. Robbed and burned all the way, extremely ferocious.
And the ferocity of the Gurkhas, which also angered the British workers, who were not really good people, they were all brainwashed racists and middle and lower class social Darwinists, who regarded the yellow race as a yellow peril, the Indians as non-humans, the Indians as humanoids, and the black uncles as slaves! Now they are being hacked and killed like this by the Gurkhas from India, which is simply an insult to their race, and it also gives them a real feeling of colonization.
The British Empire was so big for so many years, why did it become a colony of the Indians?
This has to fight with the Indian emperor!
Enraged London workers took up arms and joined the battle, gunfire, cannons, and fighting raged all night long, and the flames spread from block to block, and some of the scum among the workers took the opportunity to start buying for zero dollars. The whole industrial area of London is in chaos!
In the midst of this turmoil, the telegraph office and telephone office in London were affected by the telegraph office and telephone office, and the profession of the telegraph office and telephone office was also a member of the trade union, so naturally they knew who to support? So as soon as the gunshots rang out at St. James's Palace, they cut the telephone lines, the telegraph lines and ran away.
And the artillery bombardment of St. James's Palace by the London workers' forces destroyed the long-wave radio station of St. James's Palace. Now it will be difficult for Kaiser Wilhelm's decree to be sent out of London.
But the London Commune had a way of sending messages out. Because the telegraph office and telephone office in the industrial area of London were still functioning, and the very hands-on workers and engineers even set up a radio station to send out false news 24 hours a day—the anti-German Hanoverian dynasty had fallen, and the free Republic of England was born!
And this terrible news reached Windsor Castle as soon as possible!
Now the rebels and thieves in Windsor Castle are dumbfounded! How is it that in the blink of an eye, such a big British Empire is gone?
Obviously plotting to usurp the throne, how did it become the British Revolution? How did this Cromwell's Republic of England cheat the corpse?
In the throne hall of Windsor Castle, the atmosphere was depressing, and everyone turned their melancholy eyes to the doll-like Princess Victoria - Princess, your Great Britain is gone, what can I do?
(End of chapter)